Curator: Artemis Potamianou
Artists: Zavier Ellis, Guerrilla Girls, Joseph Kosuth, Kostas Bassanos, Yoko Ono, Giorgos Papadatos, Nina Papaconstantinou, Artemis Potamianou, Marios Spiliopoulos, Mark Titchner, Alexandros Psychoulis.
As part of the Back to Basics series of exhibitions on some fundamental themes and elements of the artistic practice, the exhibition Back to Basics: Text aims to explore the objectives behind the artists’ visual use of text and the methods of approaching it.
Joseph Kosuth, ‘Ex Libris #1-#5’, 1989
#3: 17.1x61.5x0.9cm, Cast metal and paint
Mark Titchner, All for All, 125x125x17cm, 2012
Polished stainless steel and fixings
Yoko Ono, Grow Love with Me, 9,5x7x7cm, 2012, Aluminium can, bean
Alexandros Psychoulis, Excerpt, 334x134cm, 2014, Black Plastic String
Courtesy a.antonopoulou.art, Athens, Zina Athanassiadou gallery, Thessaloniki
Mark Titchner, Please believe these days will pass, 126x126x12cm, 2013-2016
Carved burnt wood and marble dust
Zavier Ellis, Black Standard: Freedom, 30x25cm, 2016
Oil, acrylic spray paint, acrylic marker, electrical tape, PVA, street posters on linen
Zavier Ellis, Repent I, 30x25cm, 2014
Acrylic, c-type print, tape, acetate, poster on linen
Courtesy Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt
Marios Spiliopoulos, Unpublished Papers, 35,5x57,5cm, 2015
Inks, watercolors, collage in printed newspaper sheet